Goodwin, J. and Hughes, J. (2011) 'Ilya Neustadt, Norbert Elias and the Leicester department: personal correspondence and the history of sociology in Britain', British Journal of Sociology, 62(4): 677–695. [Click on this link for online access via publisher]

Simpson, R., Slutskaya, N. and Hughes, J. (2011) 'Emotional dimensions of dirty work: men's encounter with taint in the butcher trade', International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 4(2): 195–212. [Click on this link for online access via publisher]

Hughes, J. (2001) 'The learning organisation: what is it? Does it constitute a useful set of ideas for the HRD practitioner?', International Journal of Applied Human Resource Management, 2(2): 109–122.

Hughes, J. and Goodwin, J. (2014) 'Human Documents as Figurations', in Hughes, Jason and Goodwin, John (eds) Documentary and Archival Research, four volumes, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Series (London: Sage).

Conference Papers

Hughes, J. (2016) ‘Fields, Worlds and Figurations: Conceptual Imagery and Political Investments in the work of Bourdieu, Becker and Elias’. Keynote address to the sixteenth International Civilising Processes Symposium, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) Vitoria, Brazil. 21st–25th November, 2016.

Carter, B. and Hughes, J. (2015) ‘Can Sociology Do Digital? The Case of DWTs’. Keynote paper presented to the Social Science and Digital Worlds conference, Leicester. October 21st.

Hughes, J. (2014) ‘‘The Habits of Good Sociology’. Elias and the Transgression of Sociological Etiquette. Keynote presentation to Nationhood in the Carpathian Region Hungarians and their Neighbours – Sociological Perspectives. Joint Conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association and the Department of Sociology and Social Work in Hungarian of Babeş-Bolyai University. November 27–29, 2014.

Hughes, J. and Goodwin, J. (2013) ‘Norbert Elias, Ilya Neustadt and the Leicester School of sociology: other voices’. Paper presented to 45th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Dallas, Texas. 20th–23rd June, 2013.

Jugureanu, A. and Hughes, J. (2010) ‘Lay theories and the cultural contingency of happiness’. ESA Research Network. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1692187

Hughes, J. (2009) ‘On the concept of ‘advances’ in sociological knowledge’. Invited and funded paper presented to the Simpósio Internacional Processo Civilizador, 10th–13th November 2009, The Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.

Hughes, J. (2009) ‘The Habits of Good Sociology’. Invited and funded Seminar presented to Sociology Department, University College Dublin. 16th April 2009.

Hughes, J. (2008) ‘How/might sociological knowledge develop’. Invited and funded paper presented to the Sociology for the 21st Century, 5th–7th June 2008. University of Crete.

Hughes, J. (2008) ‘The rise of emotional reflexivity: emotional intelligence, informalisation, and the management of affect’. Invited and funded paper presented to Control or Care of the Self: The Sociology of the Subject in the 21st Century conference, University of Hamburg, 3–5th July 2008.

Hughes, J. (2004) ‘From dispassionate exchange to name-calling: emotional intelligence and emotional labour in HE academia’, paper presented to European Conference of Educational Research, September 2004, University of Crete, Greece.

Hughes, J. (2002) ‘Figurational sociology: the new debates’, introduction to a stream I organised and ran at the BSA annual conference, University of Leicester, March 2002.

Hughes, J. (1997) ‘Cigarettes as “Torches of Freedom”: Smoking and Women’s Emancipation in the 1920s’. Invited and funded staff seminar presented to the Sociology Department, University College Dublin. 16th October 1997.